Stanford researchers decode an ancient, extraordinary animal

Almost eight years ago, Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash was looking for a way to watch every cell in an adult living, behaving animal in elaborate detail. He searched the catalog of life and happened upon a simple marine animal called Trichoplax adhaerens - or Tplax, as Prakash has come to call it.
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